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British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in many meetings before and after America's entry into World War II
Opening slate reads: "Quebec Conference August 1943." The English battleship, Prince of Wales, is seen in fog off the Coast of Newfoundland, in August 1941. View of sailor on fore-deck of the British ship. View inside engine room of the ship where sailor manipulates her power. Closeup of engine crankshaft stopping as she drops anchor in Placentia Bay. View of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, greeting U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt aboard the Prince of Wales. He proffers a letter to the President, from the King of England. View of Roosevelt and Churchill seated on deck with their respective military leaders standing behind them. Admiral Ernest King, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations converses with U.S. Army Chief of Staff, George Marshall, as they stand behind Churchill and Roosevelt. Wider camera view shows the larger military entourage accompanying the Prime Minister and the President. Glimpse of prisoners and enslaved workers taken by Nazi Germans in Europe. Glimpse of bombs falling from an airplane. Classic film views of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 7, 1941. Bombs exploding along "Battleship Row." Heavy smoke rising from the bombed ships. The USS Arizona tilted heavily and burning. Camera pans along the path of destruction, as the voice of President Roosevelt is heard in the background, asking the Congress to declare that the Japanese attack created a state of War between the United States and the Japanese Empire. View of President Roosevelt speaking to the U.S. Congress. Seated behind him are Vice-President Henry Wallace and Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn. Glimpse of Congress members applauding. Change of scene shows President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meeting in Washington, DC, in December of 1941, during World War 2. Views of war preparations in the United States, including the building of new war production plants and facilities. A large steel ingot being forged into an artillery gun barrel. Machinist at work turning a gun barrel on a lathe in a munitions factory. Views of manufacturing plants in operation and steel being made. A railroad train carrying new Army trucks. Another meeting of Churchill and Roosevelt in Washington, D.C. June, 1942. Standing behind them is President Roosevelt's special assistant, Harry Hopkins, a British naval officer, and an American navy Captain. American soldiers boarding a troop ship, and closeups of them as they enter the ship, looking out of portholes, and waving from the ship's deck. Glimpse of Washington Monument and its image in the reflecting pool in Washington DC. Closeup of a book entitled, "Time Table for Invasion." General George Marshall with several of his generals doing preliminary planning. Series of scenes involving senior military officers engaged in war planning. A convoy of warships is seen at sea during the Operation Torch Allied invasion of French North Africa during 8–16 November, 1942. Views of Allied Navy ship guns firing. Allied troops riding in landing craft, and advancing from beached craft on shore of Algiers. Aerial view of a flight of Douglas Dauntless bombers in formation. "Bombs away" view from Allied airplane dropping bombs. Allied troops firing camouflaged antiaircraft guns from sandy positions near shore. Enemy shells or bombs exploding nearby. Two U.S. Army soldiers holding a document in French entitled, "Message from the President of the United States.
Planning and training for invasion of North Africa in World War II
'Tunisian Victory' shows preparations during World War 2. Film opens showing a sailor in the crow's nest of a ship in a convoy of American warships. Aerial glimpse of the convoy. Sailors working on teletype machines in s communications center aboard an American warship. Ships exchanging light signals at night. Scene shifts to a British naval convoy moving across the sea. View from bridge of forward guns on British King George V-class battleship. A single stack Navy destroyer ship. HMS Rodney with 3 over 3 forward gun turrets leads another warship protecting the convoy. The aircraft carrier, HMS Illustrious in camouflage paint. An American Navy Douglas Dauntless dive bomber seen from a ship. A U.S. Navy Consolidated PBY Catalina aircraft over the convoy. Brief view of a four-engine bomber flying over the convoy. Scene shifts to sailors on ship's deck in the American convoy. The British flag on one of its convoy ships. Scene shifts to the White House on June 18, 1942. President Franklin D. Roosevelt arriving with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in a car. Lights burning at night in the White House. Closeup of hats of the British and American staff officers on a rack. World Globe showing German army thrusts to the North by Field Marshal Fedor von Bock into Ukraine and the Caucasus, and another by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel South toward Egypt. In Asia, the conquests of Japan are shown. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill are seated at a desk. Behind them are Roosevelt's assistant, Harry Hopkins and two uniformed officers. View of relief map showing planned joint offensive. British and American staff officers seated at a planning table. Pertinent maps being printed for the offensive. A teletype tape coming across a machine that reads "ANFO GAZE ACROBAT RE NO K" A typist at a teletype machine with tape being made. A busy military communications center. A plan marked "secret" moving across a sliding document mechanism or slide. Defense workers arriving at production factories for work; large groups of war production workers. Workers at military equipment plants and factories in the the U.S. and the U.K., including many women workers involved in war production. A document labeled "SECRET OCSigO" Staff officers in planning session. U.S. Army Chief of Staff, George C.Marshall, seated with British Field Marshal Sir John Dill. More views of the Combined Chiefs of Staff at work. Steel mills in operation. American army troops training and preparing in battle drills, firing machine guns, battlefield advance training, leaping into water, practicing paratrooper jumps. New ships including Liberty Ships and warships being launched at American shipyards. Workers inside a plant building B-17 bomber aircraft. An early version of Sherman tank (external bolts showing). Shipboard twin anti aircraft guns being test fired. Yards filled with newly manufactured weapons.War materiel and troops moving on railroad trains in America and Britain. A Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft being towed. Ships being loaded at docks. Troops and war materiel being loaded aboard ships in the U.S. and Britain. Crowd on dock (mostly women) waving goodby to soldiers on a ship. Soldiers on troop ships underway. The entertain themselves. Soldier playing piano on deck of ship as fellow soldiers listen and stomp feet. Closeup view of hands on piano and a soldiers boot nearby on the piano case.
Montage of World War 2 scenes from all theaters of Allied operations and scenes of the U.S.A.
Peaceful scenes of pre-war England, showing a church with sheep grazing on its lawn, and a college building with ivy growing on the walls. In contrast, explosion and results of German bombing is shown, with buildings collapsing and ruined from the German blitz over England. A long line of Chinese soldiers marching along the Great Wall of china. Shadows of three Japanese bombers flying over Chinese landscape. On May 4, 1942, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek decorates American fliers who made the first attack on Tokyo in World War 2. Wearing a Chinese decoration around his neck, Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, who led that raid by U.S. B-25 bombers from the Aircraft Carrier USS Hornet, poses with Madame Chiang and others of his group. Scenes of Moscow, Soviet Russia, including a T-70 light tank moving rapidly along a city street. A Soviet Petlyakov Pe-2 dive bomber taking off in a snow storm. U.S. troops on a halftrack in North Africa. British artillerymen firing a 25 pounder in the desert. Glimpses of smoke rising from enemy strikes at cities in England, Russia, and China. Scenes of destruction from bombing. Brief street scenes of unharmed and intact towns and cities in the United States, including brief New York City scene of pedestrians and traffic in Times Square. Defense workers in America going to work at Ranger Aircraft Engines factory (later part of Fairchild Aircraft and Engine Corporation), and a star flag showing war service by worker families. Farmers in Western U.S. harvesting grain. Railroad trains and river barges carrying harvest from U.S. farms. Herds of cattle and sheep being raised for the war effort in Western U.S. Aerial view of orchards and farms in America. A mining bucket filled with iron ore. Barge carrying the ore. A steel mill in operation. Scrap iron being recycled. View from production floor of U.S. bomber aircraft being built in a defense plant. Countless freight cars in a railroad marshaling yard at a port, where a tug boat and a freighter are seen in the water. War materiel piled up at the port. A convoy of supply ships underway.
King Peter of Yugoslavia meets President Roosevelt and Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands with granddaughters in North America (WW2)
Exiled European royalty King Peter of Yugoslavia and Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands in North America during World War II. King Peter of Yugoslavia meets United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his cabinet at the White House in Washington DC, United States. The King and the President seated in chairs. American journalists and photographers in the foreground. King Peter and President Roosevelt talk to each other. Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands visits her heir Princess Juliana at their home at Stornoway in Ottawa, Canada. Queen Wilhelmina meets her granddaughters, Beatrix and Irene. They are seated in chairs in a lawn. Princess Beatrix and Princess Irene play on a seesaw.
Activities of German sailors aboard a submarine in the Atlantic near the Saint Lawrence River in North America during World War II.
A German submarine underway off the Canadian coast near the Saint Lawrence River in North America, during World War 2. A map shows the area of interest. The German submarine underway on the surface in calm waters. Crew members play cards below decks of the U-boat. A sailor cooks food. Others eat the food. The submarine submerges and the Canadian coast is scanned through a periscope. Torpedoes are fired and an oil tanker is hit. The oil tanker burns. Black smoke arises as the tanker burns.
Footage of the Japanese South Seas Force on New Guinea following the dual invasions of Lae and Salamaua, in World War II.
Scenes from the Japanese South Seas Force invasion of coastal New Guinea in March 1942, during World War 2. Stern of a ship. Smoke rising from a ship in the far background. Japanese warships underway at sea, mountains in the background. A Japanese man on deck of warship, paints picture of historic naval victory. Animated map showing Northern Australia and New Guinea, with animated bombs falling on Port Moresby and flags showing Japanese-held positions at Lae and Salamaua on the coast of the Solomon Sea, to the North. A view of the coastline on the Solomon Sea. Japanese troops are seen in a column making their way through the jungles.They stand with the rising sun battle flag and proceed further, pulling field pieces and carrying other war materiel. View from inside a dwelling, as the Japanese troops enter town of Lae. Destroyed hangars and aircraft at the Lae airfield, which the Japanese bombed on January 21, 1942. The Japanese rising sun flag flying on a tall flag pole. Japanese ships in harbor.
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